#got to watch my deranged downfall from amused spectator to terrified and confused in the crowd

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It was absolutely beautiful and I feel I have to add my own personal experience to this phenomenon because I find it hilarious

I wasnt actually properly Into bsd at the time see, I had found out about it via random crossover fics. Because I read fics for fandoms I'm not in for funsies. BUT I found out about it and I just sorta... watched the fandom freak out via authors notes in fanfics for a while. It felt like every week some new shit was going off the rails and I was watching the trainwreck happen from my VIP seat at the top of the theatre except I'm not watching the play I'm watching the crowd and trying to figure out what's happening.

Didnt actually watch or read bsd for a while figured everything out via the fandom and got deeply invested but I remember very clearly how baffled and amused I was watching shit go down in authors notes, yt descriptions, and tiktoks lol

Obviously I've now watched and read it and am right there in the crowd desprately trying to figure out what the fuck asagiri is on but I still look back fondly on my days as an amused spectator

Season 5 of bsd was such a time to be alive. Manga readers being a little wary of the anime release since it seems too close to the current manga arc. As more episodes are released, the fans grow more and more concerned as to how the season will continue while running out of manga content. But no, everyone calmed down for a second because the skk gunshot scene was released after season 5 started airing and inevitably after the episodes were completely prepared, so there's no way we'll see it in animation now. Now we're like, shit, will the anime just make up some filler to finish the season? Or could they possibly switch to a light novel at some point? As we contemplate this, the skk gunshot scene is actually animated, and now everyone has lost their goddamn mind and we're all confused as hell because the anime has weirdly caught up to the manga in an arc where, mind you, the world is quite literally ending and war is starting and 90% of the cast is dead dying or missing. And it all comes down to a finale that has united both manga readers and anime watchers in terms of having no knowledge as to what the fuck is going to happen next. It didn't matter where you were in the fandom—everyone was freaking out. It was glorious. It was peak human experience. It is one for the history books.